COPERNICUS
Contributions
· Created the idea of a heliocentric cosmology: the sun is the center of or solar system, not the earth.
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· This can be regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and began the scientific revolution.
· Others had previously presented this idea, but he was able to prove it with mathematics and science.

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